Overview
- The tag title change took place on the August 4 edition of WWE NXT, when Tavion Heights and Myles Borne defeated Vanity Project to win the NXT Tag Team Championship.
- Heights secured the pinfall over Ricky Smokes after an in-ring sequence that followed an attempted outside assist involving Myka Lockwood.
- Borne had earlier retained the NXT North American Championship on the same show, making him a double champion in NXT following the tag win.
- The win marks Tavion Heights’s first title in WWE, and he posted an emotional Instagram message saying the moment meant more to him than most fans could imagine.
- Vanity Project’s 161-day reign, which began with a February title win over DarkState, ended at the Performance Center on NXT television as confirmed by WWE and reported by Fightful and Cageside Seats.